Contact Web Context Browser

Version 1.1 enhances on the initial ContactWebContextBrowser and adds some key features.The most visible feature is a custom designer. Adding the control to a layout will automatically popup a custom designer form which allows for easy and visual configuration of the Target URL for your web browser control (see image below)

The “Contact Web Context Browser” is a custom control that you can use in ACT! to view unstructured data, often available on external web sites, which may pertain to your current contact.

For example, imagine that you had need to display information such as a map to the contact’s address, or do an automatic search on eth customer name on sites such as Google, Linked-In, Hoover etc.The Contact Web Context browser control allows you to droop a web browser control on the Contact Layout and to configure that to call a URL.The URL you configure the control with can have embedded in it Contact Filed Names, and these will be replaced at run time with the field values (sort of like a mail merge on the fly).

Configuring the custom control with this URL will actually replace the fields (Address 1, City and State) with the values from the contact record and fetch that URL and display it in the control window.

Key Features

•Flexible configuration - type in any URL you need - external or internal

•URL Template Support.If you use a number of URLs often, you can add these to an XML file and have URL templates easily available from the layout Designer to configure the control

•Internet Explorer compatible.Since the control is a .net control which is a decedent of the .net browser control, it is compatible with Internet Explorer

Re: Contact Web Context Browser

The control should work fine for google.fr. What you will need to do is to add the control to your layout and then double-click to configure. if you choose the Google template from the drop-down list, it will put in the google.com url. Simply go to the url and change .com to .fr

Re: Contact Web Context Browser

If you add the control to a layout, you will get the "Double Click to configure". In Layout Designer, you will need to double click on that and setup the URL.

The templates help you set that up easily, but remember that you can just type any URL in the edit box provided. The test link at the bottom of the configuration helps you test the link to make sure it works (it used the data from MyRecord as an example).

Can you post a screen shot of the configuration dialog or of the URL you are trying to configure?